Audio Gallery (English)

From AN8.54
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2024/Dighajanu-Sutta.mp3
Venue: AVMC

Audio recording of the Dhamma Talks and Q&A sessions:
Day 1 – Dhamma Talk – MP3
Day 1 – Q&A session – MP3
Day 2 – Dhamma Talk – MP3
Day 2 – Q&A session – MP3

Audio MP3: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2024/20240331-AdviceToADyingPersonToBecomeANobleOne.mp3

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/rYCZ2ZAw8m8

Event: 2023 Sutta Study
Date: August 2023
Venue: Online via Zoom

Video (YouTube): https://youtu.be/PAeo80TYPg8

Audio-only MP3: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2023/202308-MN50-MaratajjaniyaSutta.mp3

Event: 2023 Sutta Study
Date: June 2023
Venue: Online via Zoom

Video (YouTube): https://youtu.be/C4wFLnE9_IM

Audio-only MP3: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2023/202306-AnathapindikovadaSutta.mp3

Audio MP3: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2023/20230520-LookingForHappiness-BMVKL.mp3

How Perception Cheats You (MN 75 : Māgandiya Sutta)

Event: 2023 Sutta Study
Date: March / April 2023
Venue: Online via Zoom

Video links:
Part 1 (YouTube Video): https://youtu.be/ZW68_JxS6_0
Part 2 (YouTube Video): https://youtu.be/9mW_uXbJDds

Audio-only MP3 links:
Part 1: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2023/20230325-Magandiya-Sutta-Part-1.mp3
Part 2: https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2023/20230401-Magandiya-Sutta-Part-2.mp3

YouTube Videos:

From Sutta AN5(148)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2022/A-superior-persons-gift.mp3

The talk was given as part of the dana session in AVMC, as shown in the photos.

From the Sutta: AN5(161)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2022/Five-ways-to-remove-grudges.mp3
Venue: AVMC

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： Two kinds of thought (1-Dec-2020)
(Majjhima Nikaya 19, Dvedhavitakka Sutta)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/Two-kinds-of-thought.mp3
Venue: Kuala Lumpur

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： How the notion of self occurs (29-Nov-2020)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/How-the-notion-of-self-occurs.mp3
Venue: Putrajaya

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： Where craving arises (28-Nov-2020)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/Where-craving-arises.mp3
Venue: Putrajaya

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： Contemplation on the body as a body (27-Nov-2020)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/Contemplation-on-the-body-as-a-body.mp3
Venue: Putrajaya

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： Five ways to overcome distracting thoughts (9-Oct-2020)
(Based on MN 20 Vitakkasanthana Sutta)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/Five-ways-to-overcome-distracting-thoughts.mp3
Venue: Cheras

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： How would you choose (3-Oct-2020)
(A Story from Dhammapada 374)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/How-would-you-choose.mp3
Venue: Appamada Vihari Meditation Center (AVMC)

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： How to release from fear (26-Sep-2020)
(Subrahma Deva Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 2.17)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/How-to-release-from-fear.mp3
Venue: Appamada Vihari Meditation Center (AVMC)

Sayalay Susila’s Talk： Do You Really Understand the Working of Karma? (30-Aug-2020)
Audio download：https://www.sayalaysusila.net/audio/2020/Do-You-Really-Understand-the-Working-of-Karma.mp3
Venue: Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
By Appamada Vihari Meditation Center (AVMC) https://www.sayalaysusila.net

• Happiness, Restlessness and Mindfulness

• Retreat Opening Instruction
• The Four-element Meditation
• Contemplation of Feelings
• Contemplation of Feelings (continue)
• Mindfulness
• Summary and clarification
  • 01:10 About Anapanasati
  • 08:28 Four-element Meditation
  • 27:17 Discerning Five Aggregates
  • 33:39 Contemplation of Feelings
  • 44:34 Handling Common Mental States

YouTube: https://youtu.be/28RSATMrZWA

MP3 (Audio only): https://bit.ly/3fQARCP

Dhamma Talk Index:
0:00 The Nine Attributes of the Buddha
27:10 Buddhanusati – Meditation Instructions
36:46 佛陀的九种德行 – The Nine Attributes of the Buddha (Chinese) (Translation by Bro. Chih Yih)
49:04 佛随念修法 – Meditation Instructions (Chinese) (Translation by Bro. Chih Yih)
53:51 Q&A

Reference Books:

The Nine Attributes of the Buddha -1st Edition (2019) – PDF download :
https://bit.ly/2DDV7e1

佛陀的九种德行 – PDF 下载 :
https://bit.ly/2PQ4WYO

• Talk 1: Introduction 4 Foundations of Mindfulness / Contemplation of 4 Postures
• Talk 2: Quality to cultivate prior meditation practice
• Talk 3: Dependent Origination, Part 1
• Talk 4: Dependent Origination, Part 2
• Talk 5: Dependent Origination, Part 3
• Talk 6: Dependent Origination, Part 4
• Talk 7: Dependent Origination, Part 5

• Who Fears Death and Who Not

• Contemplation of Mind – July 13, 2018
• Abhaya Sutta (Fearless) – AN 4.184(4) – June 15, 2018

• Four Elements Meditation
• Anapanasati Meditation
• Dependent Origination
• Walking Meditation
• Introduction To Insight Meditation
• Metta Meditation

• Kaccanagotta SN 12.15(5) – Right View

• The Verses of Enlightenment Nun (Part 1)
• The Verses of Enlightenment Nun (Part 2)

• Morning Puja
• Evening Puja
• Contemplation of Body (Anapanassati)English
• Contemplation of dhamma (5 Hindrances)PartI(English)
• Contemplation of dhamma (5 Hindrances)Part II(English)
• Contemplating Pain & Straightening out One’s View (PartI) (English)
• Straightening out One’s View (PartII) (English)
• Straightening out One’s View (PartIII) (English)
• 5 Ways of contemplation to overcome identity view
• Dependant Origination 
• 4 factors to become Sotapan
• Q&A

• The two vehicles to liberation
• Four elements of meditation
• Letting go of identity view (1)
• Letting go of identity view (2)
• Letting go of identity view (3)
• Letting go of identity view (4)
• Comtemplation of mind- Cittanupassana (1)
• Comtemplation of mind- Cittanupassana (2)
• Comtemplation of mind- Cittanupassana (3)
• Comtemplation of feeling(1)
• Comtemplation of feeling(2)

• Mindfulness of breathing
• Do you know how to contemplate your feelings
• Do you know how to contemplate your mind
• How a notion of self occurs

• Four Nutriments (1)
• Four Nutriments (2)
• Four Nutriments (3)
• Non-Self Characteristics
• Three Refuges
• Q&A

March 2017 Retreat

• By Protecting Oneself, One Protects Others.

Noble truth of suffering & Ceasation of suffering

• Talk

Anapannasati Sutta

• Talk

Chinese New Year Blessing Ceremony 2017

• 5 helpers of right views
• 4 Nutriments

Dhamma Talk @ Singapore (09-09-2016)

• When an Arahants dies, where does he go

Dhamma Talk @ Singapore (16-12-2016)

Mind is a powerful element that affects our whole being. However, the power of it is almost unknown. This talk will reveal to you how a wholesome mind can overcome obstacles that arise, while an unwholesome mind hastens the ripening of unwholesome kamma. You can develop the wholesome mind easily.

• The Power of Mind

Female Novitiate and Eight Precepts Program 2016

• 4 Protective Meditation
• How to Practice Mindfulness While Eating
• How to Bring Craving to Cessation

Dhamma Talk By Sayalay Susila At BGF (2016)

• Dammacakabavatana Sutta
• Three Fold Training

Dhamma Talk by Sayalay Susila on Bhavana Day

• Dhamma Talk Part 1
• Dhamma Talk Part 2
• Instruction to Meditation
• Q&A

Four Foundation of Mindfulness (16-24 July 2016)

• Introduction
• Prerequisites of the Practice
• Do you Mindful of your Mental States
• Contemplation on Dhamma 160722 Part 1
• Contemplation on Dhamma 160722 Part 2

Kusala Day (26 June 2016)

• Dhamma Talk

Dhamma Talk at Nibbana Dhamma Rakkha

• Introductory to Anapanasati (morning)
• Q&A (morning)
• Dhamma talk (evening)
• Q&A (evening)

Dhamma Talk at Metta Lodge Johor Bahru

• A Guarded Mind Brings Happiness

2016 Wesak Day Dhamma Talks

• Day 1
• Day 2

1st International Buddhist Novitiate @ Ladakh (Aug 2015)

• Satipatthana Sutta (1)
• Satipatthana Sutta (2)
• Satipatthana Sutta (3)
• Satipatthana Sutta (4)
• Satipatthana Sutta (5)
• Satipatthana Sutta (6)

Buddhist Gem Fellowship (BGF), Damansara Selangor (3rd January 2016)

• Dhamma Talk

Singapore Dhamma Talks @ Vimalakirti Buddhist Centre (17-19th September 2015)

• Inner Exploration

Malaysian Day Dhamma Talk (16 September, 2015)

• Malaysia Day-16092015

Abhidhamma Camp (29-31 August, 2015)

• Abhidhamma-0101
• Abhidhamma-0102
• Abdidhamma-0103
• Abhidhamma-0201
• Abhidhamma-0202
• Abhidhamma-0301

7 Days Four Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation Retreat (16-23 July, 2015)

• 20150717-Metta
• 20150718-Satipathana
• 20150720-Satipathana
• 20150721-Satipathana
• 20150723-Q%26A

1-Day Retreat (Anapanasati) (12 April 2015)

at Appamadavihari Meditation Centre

• Fear of Death (AN 4:184)

Sutta Study (Samyutta Nikaya N22.2) (29 March 2015)

at Appamada Vihari Meditation Center

• Samyutta Nikaya N22.2 (English talk)

Singapore Dhamma Talk (27 September 2014)

at Vimalakirti Buddhist Center, Singapore

• 140927_005_move in your own resort (english talk).MP3

Dhamma Talk at Medan, Indonesia (23 August 2014)

• The working of Kamma (Hokkien)

5-Day Samatha & Vipassanā Retreat (26 – 30 July 2014)

at Bodhi Heart Santuary, Penang, Malaysia

• Move in your own resort
• Contemplation on feeling
• Canki Sutta (MN95)

9-Day Meditation Retreat (14 June – 22 June 2014)

at Southern Dharma Retreat Center, North Carolina, USA

• 140614_001_Opening talk NC 9 days retreat
• 140614_002_D1_Loving-kindness_and_Walking-meditation
• 140614_003_D1-Q&A
• 140615_004_D2 What is concentration and how to practice concentration
• 140616_005_D3-Development-of-concentration
• 140617_001_D4-Development-of-concentration
• 140618_002_D5-Development-of-concentration
• 140619_003_D6-the-destruction-of-craving
• 140620_001_D7-Five-mastery-of-Jhana
• 140621_002_D8-Mindfulness-and-Wisdom
• 140622_001_D9-Q&A.MP3

Maryland, USA (June 9th, 2014)

• The Destruction of the Taint

Michigan, USA (May-June 2014)

• The simile of the snake MN22, Michigan
• The simile of the snake MN22 Michigan
• How abhidhamma helps samatha and vipassana, Michigan
• Incorporate mindfulness with concentration practice, Michigan
• Living Dhamma, Michigan
• Don’t stray from your own domain

Penang Hill Wellness Retreat Sutta Study (25 – 29 March 2014)

AN169(4) Four Types of Persons (With / Without Exertion)

• Session 1
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4

3-Day Anapanasati Retreat (1-3 Mar 2014)

at Penang Bodhi Heart, Penang, Malaysia

• Mindfulness-and-Clear-Comprehension

1-Day Four Foundations of Mindfulness Meditation Retreat (24 Nov 2013)

at Penang Bodhi Heart, Penang, Malaysia

• 131124_001-Precepts-and-Satipatthana
• 131124_002-Walking-Meditation-on-the-Four-Elements
• 131124_003-Satipatthana-and-Q&A

1-Day Anapanasati Meditation Retreat (3 Nov 2013)

at Penang Bodhi Heart, Penang, Malaysia

• 131103_001-Formal-and-Informal-Practice
• 131103_002-Q&A

Michigan, USA (March – April 2013)

• 130330_001-Ann-Arbor-Michigan_Contemplation-of-the-Mind
• 130413_001-Instruction-on-how-to-practice-Metta
• 130413_002-Guided-Meditation-on-Metta
• 130413_003-Talk-on-Metta-Meditation
• 130420_001-Q&A

8-Day Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (29 December 2012 to 5 January 2013)

at Bodhi Monastery, NJ, USA

• 121229 – Introduction
• 121229 – Talk on Metta Meditation (1)
• 121229 – Talk on Metta Meditation (2)
• 121230 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (1)
• 121231 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (2)
• 130101 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (3)
• 130101 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (4)
• 130102 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (5)
• 130103 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (6)
• 130103 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (7)
• 130103 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (8)
• 130103 – Talk on Samadhi Sutta (9)
• 130104 – Talk on Contemplation of Mind (1)
• 130104 – Talk on Contemplation of Mind (2)
• 130104 – Talk on Contemplation of Mind (3)

Abhidhamma Talks on Cognitive Process (Dec 2012)

in USA

• 20121201 – Talk 1 on Cognitive-Process
• 20121201 – Q&A
• 20121208 – Talk 2 on Cognitive-Process
• 20121208 – Talk 3 on Cognitive-Process
• 20121208 – Q&A
• 20121215 – Talk 4 on Cognitive-Process
• 20121215 – Q&A
• 20121222 – The Process of Birth and Death

The Power of the Mind (5 August 2012)

at Nalanda, Malaysia

• 120805 – The-Power-of-the-Mind_Nalanda

Bodhi Heart Santuary (14 April 2012)

• 7 Perceptions

Meditation Retreat in Nalanda (7 – 8 April 2012)

• The Doctrine of Non-Self
• The Counterfeit of True Dhamma

5-Day Retreat Malaysia (10-14 March 2012)

• An Introduction to the Five Aggregates
• The Five Aggregates in Detail
• The Gratification of the Five Aggregates
• Right View about the Five Aggregates
• Mindfulness and Wisdom

Satipatthana Meditation Retreat (2012)

• Part A1
• Part A2
• Part A3
• Part A4
• Part B1
• Part B2
• Part B3
• Part B4
• Part C1
• Part C2
• Part C3

Anapanasati Meditation Retreat (2012)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6

Contemplation of the Mind (2012)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

MLA (California) (2011)

• Samatha & Vipasana

Mahavihara Toronto Canada (2011)

• Mindfulness of the Breath
• The Goal of the Practice

Bhavana Society, West Virginia (6-Day Retreat) (2011)

• Anapanasati
• Discerning Mental Factors One By One
• Four Elements Meditations
• The_Purposes_Of_The_Practice
• Daily_Life_Practice
• Insight_Meditation

Virginia (2011)

• Five Aggregates

Dhamma Talk 2011

• Dhamma Talk 1
• Dhamma Talk 2
• Dhamma Talk 3

From August to November 2010

Connecticut, US (10-Day Meditation Retreat)

• Viper Sutta
• Meditation Instruction – Develop Loving Kindness
• Anapanasati 
• Recollection Of Death 
• Develop 32 Parts Of The Body 
• How To Apply Abhidhamma In Daily Life
• Meditation Instruction – Vipasana
• Anapanasati With 33 Mental Factors
• Anathapindikavada Sutta

Michigan, US (7-Day Meditation Retreat)

• Conquering Your Inner Enemies 
• All The Taints 
• Dependent Origination 
• Contemplate Dhamma In Daily Life 

Mindful Living Alliance, California, US (2-Day Meditation Retreat)

• The Mindfulness Of Breathing 
• How To Practice Meditation In Daily Life
• Meghiya Sutta
• Anapanasati Meditation
• Samatha & Vipasana Meditation 

Canada (3-Day Meditation Retreat)

• Concentration & Insight Meditation 
• Conquering Your Inner Enemies 
• Viper Sutta 

Ohio, US (3-Day Meditation Retreat)

• The Way To True Happiness 
• Samatha & Vipasana Meditation 
• Four Nutriment 

23 August 2009 at US

• The Precious Teaching of the Buddha
• The Truth Advice from the Lord Buddha

23 May 2009 at Singapore

• Dependent Origination 1
• Dependent Origination 2

2007 Abhidhamma

• Abhidhamma (Mental Factors-7 Universals)
• Abhidhamma (Mental Factors-6 Occasionals)
• Abhidhamma (Mental Factors-14 Unwholesome Factors ) 
• Abhidhamma (Mental Factors-25 Beautiful Factors) 
• Abhidhamma (Fine_Material, material & Supramundane)

2005 Malaysia

• The Discourse on Removal of Distracting Thoughts 1
• The Discourse on Removal of Distracting Thoughts 2
• The Connected Discourse on Without Discoverable Beginning

Abhidhamma Lectures

USA

• 01 Introduction to Abhidhamma
• 02 Two of the Eight Wholesome Consciousness
• 03 Six of the Eight Wholesome Consciousness
• 04 Thirty-one Planes of Existence
• 05 Eleven Sense-spheres
• 06 Mind-door Cognitive Process
• 07 Questions & Answers
• 08 The New Death Cognitive Process
• 09 Questions & Answers
• 10 Questions & Answers
• 11 Questions & Answers
• 12 Questions & Answers
• 13 What is Ignorance?
• 14 First Ultimate Truth
• 15 Questions & Answers
• 16 Second Ultimate Truth
• 17 Fourteen Unwholesome Mental Factors
• 18 Mental Factors-Occasional
• 19 Mental Factors-Universal
• 20 Fourteen Unwholesome Factors 1
• 21 Fourteen Unwholesome Factors 2
• 22 Twenty-five Beautiful Factors 1
• 23 Twenty-five Beautiful Factors 2
• 24 Twenty-eight Kinds of Materiality 1
• 25 Twenty-eight Kinds of Materiality 2
• 26 Origination of Matter (Rupa) 1
• 27 Origination of Matter (Rupa) 2
• 28 Consciousness Four Sense Spheres
• 29 Consciousness Fine-Material & Immaterial Spheres, & Supramundane

Toronto

• Toronto Abdhidhamma Lecture

Malaysia

• Malaysia–Lecture 1
• Malaysia–Lecture 2
• Malaysia–Lecture 3
• Malaysia–Lecture 4
• Malaysia–Lecture 5
• Malaysia–Lecture 6
• Malaysia–Lecture 7

A Collection of Anapanasati Meditation

• Anapanasati
• Anapanasati With 33 Mental Factors
• Anapanasati Meditation
• Anapanasati
• Anapanasati Guided Meditation
• Mindfulness of the Breath